Eight years old, Katelyn Jermyn, befriend three crows when her automotive parts manufacturing executive father relocates the family from Detroit Michigan to the Hampton Plantation located in Lincoln, Alabama. Katelyn’s friendship with the crows spurs her mother on a quest to bring closure to an African-American grandmother she meets at the M.L. King Center during a visit to Atlanta, Georgia. The mother uses her “white privilege” to ferret out the truth about the grandmother’s brother’s disappearance in the mid nineteen-twenties.
In 1958 members of the Knights of Ku Klux Klan planned to hold a rally near Maxton North Carolina to intimidate the proud Lumbee Indian community. The city officials and law enforcement voiced their opposition to the rally, but the Klan held the rally anyway; to the Klan’s regret.
Da Belly is historical fiction dealing with the Zong slave ship during the Middle Passage when approximately 12 million enslaved African were brought to America. The First Mate of the Zong chronicled some of the trial and tribulations of transporting the slaves to America. An Atlanta Public School history teacher had no idea a class field trip to the High Museum to view the African art titled Mami Wata would lead to her family’s Middle Passage journey.
A white teenager’s friendship with his best friend, who was black, is put to the test during Black History month at their school. A civil rights presentation viewed by his classmates evokes a visceral reaction from his black friend and drives a wedge between the white student and his grandfather.
When a college student purchases graduation gifts for her girlfriends, and a blue and silver address book, she assumes has the Dallas Cowboys' logo on the cover, she seals the fate of her entire clique. How 'bout 'em Cowboys!
The first valentine day following the death of an Atlanta widow's found her lonely and yearning for her husband. She was prepared for it to be an uneventful gardening day until she received an unexpected visitor. She was unprepared for the chain of events that followed.
The legend that remnants of Jesus’ garments were woven into several quilts was the reason an Ancient History professor from Germany visited “Like New” antique repair shop. It’s alleged that these quilts possess supernatural healing powers and the powers to rejuvenate. The professor confessed that finding one of the quilts is his Holy Grail pursuit.
A contestant at Chicago’s World’s Largest Steppin’ Contest is murdered. All Chicago homicide detective, Reggie Knox, wanted to do was to learn the Chicago style Steppin’ dance, but his crush on his vivacious dance instructor, Malinda Sweet, drew him into the hunt for a killer.
